Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu

[Philip Kaludercic]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>>> - I think we should use `help-for-help-header' for the headlines, not
>>>   capitalize them, and align them with :align-to.
>>
>> That can be done.
>
> I note that you did not use the `help-for-help-header' face for the
> headlines.  They are also manually aligned, not with :align-to.
>
> I tried with this naive patch, which means that alignment is off, but
> the results look promising to me:
>
> diff --git a/lisp/help.el b/lisp/help.el
> index 1cfd044db8..3979d772bc 100644
> --- a/lisp/help.el
> +++ b/lisp/help.el
> @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ help-quick
>                          (concat
>                           (car section)
>                           (make-string (- width (length (car section))) ?\s))
> -                        'face 'bold)
> +                        'face 'help-for-help-header)
>                        ,@(mapcar (lambda (ent)
>                                    (format fmt
>                                            (propertize
>
> In any case, I don't think using the face `bold' is best here, as that
> makes this hard to customize.  I'd prefer a proper defface (whether it
> inherits from `help-for-help-header' by default or not).

FWIW I totally agree, and that was just forgetfulness on my part.  As to
:align-to, I believe I already explained that it was difficult to make
use of the property considering the manner in which the buffer is
prepared.